1960s Edward Gorey
Flash back to the late 1960s, when Edward Gorey (mid-century illustrator of the macabre) and author Peter F. Neumeyer had…
Posts Tagged 'vintage'
Florida by Glass Lantern Slide
Florida by lanternslides, revisiting the midcentury tourist.
Kitchens: Vintage or Retro?
A handful of kitchens from the House Beautiful archives of the 1950s, are paired with today’s similar retro versions. Actually,…
Bicycles: 1930s Footage
This footage from the 1930s shows three minutes of bicycles on the streets of Durham, North Carolina (with plenty of…
Passion for Pull-Down Charts
Those pull-down charts that hung above blackboards in mid-century classrooms are back in style. Originals of solar systems or botanicals…
How to type music
Imagine trying to learn how to use this. It’s a music typewriter from the 1930s.
Abba & the BOBO Phone
The BOBO telephone was made famous by the ABBA music group in the 1970s, and is also in the Museum…
Vintage: Maple Sugar Shack
If you’ve been to a sugar shack this season, you’ve seen Maple Syrup in the making. This is how it…
Boys in the Band
In the 1940s and ’50s, Baranger Studio of South Pasadena, California, created shop-window motion displays for stores, like this one…
Titanic: The Last Menu
The only known surviving copy of the R.M.S. Titanic’s First Class dining room menu on April 14, 1912 (the night…
